A few days ago my partner and I celebrated our year day/anniversary. It’s a strange feeling, really, when you find right. We’ve been together for a year (so far the best year of my life!), but it feels more like it’s been at least a life time. It feels like he’s always been around and always will be. It’s a good feeling. In fact, even the very best feeling.
To me, love is the meaning of life. Because what can you learn, go through, feel, or understand, if you don’t have love? There are many different kinds of love and it doesn’t matter what kind of love it is, as long as it’s big and unconditional. Because there is a difference between conditional and unconditional. Conditional love is not love – it is compromising (in the wrong way) or settling. And when it comes to love you should never settle. You should find the very best and then work hard for it.
There are a lot of things in life the my partner and I don’t have, and some of it might be things we would want. But that’s all material things, and when you think about it doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have, as long as you have love. And that’s something we’ve got more than plenty of!

Love really is all you need.

Below, you can read a poem I wrote my partner a few months ago, and I gave it to him the other day. It was sort of a big deal for me, because it’s the first time I’ve actually written a poem for someone, and above all, the first time I’ve read one of my poems out loud to someone. Enjoy!
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Poem for Sean – This love

It’s when you least expect it
that love comes sailing in
like that big brave battleship
that conquers everything.

It’s when you least expect it
that love takes you over
consumes you,
embraces you,
completes you.

It’s when you least expect it
that love finds you
and makes you whole again,
Even though you didn’t know
you were still broken.

Love heals you,
mends you,
takes you in
and tucks you in
Let’s you know
that nothing will ever be the same

Nothing will ever again
be wrong,
difficult,
tough,
hard or hurtful

Because love holds you in his arms
and never lets you go.
He sees you with his eyes
like the sun
sees a gem in the desert.